Jackson C. Boruff, of section 23, Macedonia Township, was born in Mercer County, Illinois, May 17, 1845, the son of John and Mary (McGreer) Boruff. The father, a native of Tennessee, was the son of Valentine Boruff, a native of the south; the mother was born in Indiana near Connersville. The parents were married in Illinois, and reared three children. The mother died in 1865, and the father now resides in Rock Island County, Illinois, and is married and has one son.

Jackson, the second of three boys, was reared in Rock Island County, Illinois, and passed his youth at farm work. In 1876 he came west to Montgomery County, near Red Oak, where he bought a farm and resided three years. He then bought eighty acres of land, and later forty acres, and he now has 120 acres within one mile of Macedonia. He has three wells to supply water for stock purposes.

Mr. Boruff was married in Muscatine County, Iowa, May 18, 1876, to Miss Hannah Drury, who was born in Rock Island County, Illinois, the daughter of James and Jane (Randolph) Drury, the former a native of Ohio, and latter of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have three children: John W., Hattie A. and Claude C.

Politically Mr. Boruff is a Democrat, but has never aspired for public office. He is a man yet in the prime of life, honorable in all his dealings and is one of the solid men of the township.